“No! No, I didn’t. I refused to accept a label. And I still do,” Coffman said on air in response to a question about whether she’d describes herself as pro-choice.

Yet, Boyd reported that the Coffman campaign did not want Channel 4 to correct its story labeling Coffman as “pro-choice.”

So Coffman’s words say she’s pro-choice, but that’s not what she wants to be called? What to do with that, if you’re a reporter? You have to call her pro-choice, because that’s what she appears to be, but maybe there’s more to the story.

The dilemma for today’s Republicans is that the party demands dishonesty and obfuscation in everything. In this case, one can’t be called simply “pro-choice”, you have to be “not-pro-choice-but-not-totally-against-it-either” (“. . . as long as you don’t ever quote me as saying that, either”).